Yesterday, one and all, I found out my eBook is NOW available on my website, www.pattifoster.com. (YAY!!!) Kevin, my web guy in Idaho, is quite a SPLENDID help to me, letting the world-wide-web know about how the LORD is weaving the threads of my life! Btw, soon and very soon the paperback version will also be [...]
...it's traveling around the country. I recently heard T.D. Jakes say there is "opportunity in chaos." Well, there has been a wee bit of "chaos" you might say regarding the address my books were to be shipped to. Somehow yesterday (Monday, 12/10) they ended up in WA instead of TX. (As I often say, "Let us pray!") Please keep [...]
MERRY CHRISTMAS, Friends! Earlier this weekend, a friend of mine emailed me this quote by Spurgeon ... 'thought you might like to check it out... So, prepare thyself! Get ready to take a "Calgon Moment" in this and see how you think it applies to today's culture... "Discernment is not telling the difference between right and [...]
A Candy Maker in Indiana wanted to make a candy that would be a witness, so he made the Christmas Candy Cane. He incorporated several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ. He began with a stick of pure white, hard candy. White to symbolize the Virgin Birth and the sinless nature of [...]
Ya know how certain things will stay on your mind? Outta nowhere they'll "flit" (isn't this a snazzy word?) into your brain... Anyway, sometimes out-of-the-blue, a thought will zoom across our mind like a shooting star. Well, for the last couple of days, my brain waves have been stirred by some words in Chapter 1 of the [...]
Ahhhhh, here's a GREAT Truth to take a "Calgon Moment" in...it's one of Corrie ten Boom's favorite poems from Anne Flint. A beautiful prayer of Thanksgiving -- He giveth more grace when the burden grows greater, He sendeth more strength when the labours increase, To added affliction, He addeth His mercy, To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace. [...]
Tonight I heard Charles Stanley, on his InTouch program, talking about 14 things that bear "evidence of a grateful heart." Happy Heart-Testing!... see how your "grateful-gauge" is doing: 1) Positive Attitude 2) Aware of GOD's Presence 3) Humble Spirit 4) Peacefulness 5) Thoughtful of Others 6) Generous 7) Unselfish [...]
Texting can be quite handy-dandy at times (when it's safe and healthy and you're NOT texting as you drive!)... This afternoon, one of my cool radio friends (actress/mime performer/voice talent, etc...you name it; she's there!)...anyway, she texted me this "modern-day" quote of Robert Morris, Pastor of Gateway Church; Southlake, TX: "Some preach a prosperity gospel; some preach a poverty [...]
As I've talked with people around the world - men, women, college students, youth groups, etc ... "persevering" is not always the easiest thing to do; giving up sometimes is...for that moment. Here's a powerful acrostic of the word "PERSEVERE" that Mary Kay wrote in her book, The Best Way Out Is Through: The Mary Kay Ash Story-- [...]
Here's an old plaque with a poem written on it that I found in Aunt Jenny's things. Through all these years, she had purposefully kept it. In fact, I think she told me one of her nieces or nephews had given it to her (maybe Scotty) -- I Said A Prayer For You Today I said a [...]
